Nucs are for local pickup only. No shipping on nucs! (Do not combine a nuc order or deposit with other items unless doing a local pick-up! Remember to select “local pick-up” when you make a nuc deposit or purchase.)
This listing are for starter bee colonies, or nucs, on five (5) full MEDIUM frames. The colony will be composed of a mated/accepted/laying queen, various ages of brood, and some food (i.e., honey and pollen). This functional nuc is a small bee colony ready to grow and increase in size for you sold in a transport-only cardboard hive.
With our complete hive option, all you have to do when you get your new nucs home is to put the entire box on a stand and walk away. When you are ready (in the next couple of days), you just easily lift the lid, add a second 8-frame medium box with frames on top of your new hive, and the hive is immediately ready to expand into a new box. Of course, you will also need to feed the nuc if there is no nectar flow, but that is still easy: just have a division board feeder in the hive body you add! Unless there is a nectar flow on in your area when you receive the nucs, plan to feed the nuc immediately.
Our nucs may include any of our queen lineages. All of the mated queens that we sell as part of our nucs are open-mated in an area with plenty of native drones and/or many drones from our managed colonies. (Remember, genetic diversity in the drones breeding with the queen is probably the #1 key to maintaining a healthy, productive, treatment free colony!) Every queen will be outwardly healthy with an established laying queen with a good brood pattern. Available nucs are sold in the order in which they are produced.
We like to maintain a nuc for an entire brood cycle once a queen is established. This means, you may not get your nuc as early in the season as possible, but you should expect FEWER problems since the colony will be truly established with the introduced queen!
Our colonies are generally based on queens from bloodlines displaying the VSH (Varroa Sensitive Hygiene) Trait, and then we graft from those queens and/or their daughters. Basically, we select for queens with some level of VSH so that we can have good levels of colony survival WITHOUT the use of harsh, dangerous chemicals to control mites and other hive issues. (We have not used harsh, dangerous chemicals to control for mites in over a decade – and it has been even longer since we have used any antibiotics in our colonies!) We run relatively “treatment free” colonies.
No shipping on Nucs – Local Pick-up only! Nuc pick-up will be available at limited times with some alternate options available. Please contact us for availability (or expected availability) if quantity here is listed as zero. Deposits should only be placed AFTER discussing expected availability with us.
After all deposits on queens and nucs are filled, any extra queens or nucs will be made for sale. We will make an announcement on our facebook page concerning available queens and/or in this online store. Make sure to like and follow us on facebook to know when we have new products available for sale.
Contact us at webmaster@kjun.us or (985)789-1000 for specific quotes and availability. To be the first to know when we have extra queens or nucs for sale, please remember to like and follow us on facebook!
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